Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast where each weekday we bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient stillics, a short passage of ancient wisdom

designed to help you find strength and insight here in everyday life.

And on Wednesdays, we talk to some of our fellow students of

ancient philosophy well-known and obscure fascinating and powerful with them we

discuss the strategies and habits that have helped them become who they are,

and also to find peace and wisdom in their actual lives.

But first, we've got a quick message from one of our sponsors. Hey, it's Ryan. Welcome to another episode of The Daily Stogpocass. This is part two of my convo with McMoroy. Big news in my life, other than this cold,

which you're hearing, and screwing up my nasal passages and thus making this not the most

listenable intro. The episode is much better, I promise.

I started the fourth book in the Stoic Virtue series,

so the wisdom book is now underway the justice book will be out this summer

And then I can't even wrap my head around dates over the next one will be out but it is in the works

Production has begun. So I now got that part of my brain operating. I think I'm

both happier when I'm writing and more miserable when I'm writing. But what I love to do is have

conversations with people who are interested in Stowe's. what I'm writing. But what I love to do is have conversations

with people who are interested in stoicism,

or better yet, applying it in the real world.

And that's where today's guest comes in.

If you listen to Part 1,

Bick Moroy was a deputy assistant for the Secretary of Defense at the Middle East.

He served under Secretary James Mattis and Secretary Mark Esper, and he's a former CIA officer,

former United States Marine, a fascinating guy. he spent a lot of time at the Pentagon,

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